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  • 80
    Time | Richard Corliss

    Cronenberg delivers.

  • 80
    Variety |

    Scanners offers at least one literally eye-popping moment and another that can...

  • 75
    TV Guide |

    Scanners is a memorable and absorbing genre entertainment.

  • 63
    Boston Globe | Jay Carr

    The film is more interesting as a phenomenon than as a movie. [27 Feb 1981]

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